Todd Suomela
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Librarian as Bartender
At Wiscon this year I attended a panel about librarians. There’s no surprise there. The connection between avid readers and …
Aug 22, 2006
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Autocratic Personality and Other Odds
Reading about conservatism and personality is like watching a slow motion car crash. You wish it could be stopped or would just end, …
Aug 21, 2006
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Sometimes It's Better to Laugh
Random fact generators are great. Via Chrononautic log I found this Bruce Schneier fact generator. A few refreshes produced these …
Aug 17, 2006
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Anchors for the Learning Community
One of the topics that has been at the top of my mind over the last few months of summer has been learning communities. Universities, …
Aug 15, 2006
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A Pocketful of -archies
A confluence of recent readings have reintroduced me to some -archies I was familiar with and introduced some that were new to me. …
Aug 14, 2006
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The Evolution of Groups
To the small number of people who might be reading this. I apologize for my loss of control on Thursday. Sometimes there’s just …
Aug 12, 2006
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On the Unimaginable
I made a mistake tonight. I turned on the radio to listen to the news about the foiled terrorist attack discovered in the United …
Aug 10, 2006
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The Density of the Other
I was sitting this afternoon in the coffee shop at Borders. There were about a dozen other people sitting in the shop with me, some of …
Aug 9, 2006
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Existential Threats and Silly Ideas about Genre SF
Charlie Stross gets things going with a post about the dissipated habits of current science fiction. Chad Orzel says not so fast, you …
Aug 8, 2006
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Reflecting
Among the many writing projects that I’ve considered pursuing was a series of essays based on gerunds, in English these are nouns …
Aug 7, 2006
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